stigan

From Proto-West Germanic *stīgan, from Proto-Germanic *stīganą.

stīgan

1. to climb, to ascend

• gistīgan
• nitherstīgan
• upstīgan

• Middle Dutch: stigen
  • Dutch: stijgen
  • Limburgish: stiege

• “stīgan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *stīgan, from Proto-Germanic *stīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstiː.ɡɑn/, [ˈstiː.ɣɑn]

stīgan

1. to go
2. to go up, ascend, climb
   • "Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 19, verse 4

     Þā arn hē beforan and stāh ūp on ān trēow. Sicomorum þ hē hine ġesāwe. forþām þe hē wolde þanon faran...

     Then he ran in front and climbed (lit. ascended) up on a tree. From sycamores that he saw him. For which he would go from there.

• dūnestīgende (“descending”)
• niþerstige (“a descent”)
• niþerstīgend (“one who descends”)
• onstīgend (“one who ascends”)
• stǣġer (“a stair”)
• stīga (“a path”)
• stiġel (“a stile”)
• stīgend (“a sty”)
• upāstigenness (“an ascent, a way to ascend”)
• upstige (“an ascent, ascension”)
• upstīgend (“one who ascends”)

• Middle English: stien, stiȝen, stighen
  • English: sty, stigh

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “stigan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Proto-West Germanic *stīgan.

stīgan

1. to climb up, ascend

• gistigan

• Low German: stiegen